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Own Quotes by Albert Camus
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own…
- All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
- What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,…
- Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and…
- The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
- One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
- Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their…
- It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they…
- It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are…
- His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.
- I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to…
- True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers…
- He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he…
- If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no…
- But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
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